Imagine standing on a scorched landscape where the ground is cracked and shimmering, and the sky glows a deep, fiery orange.

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Similar activity in Greenland now could eventually trigger volcanic eruptions in Iceland. Geoscientists modeled a chain of events that demonstrate how sea level rise impacts plate tectonics, they ...

This part of the planet plays a crucial role in shaping surface features like mountains and volcanoes, and it drives plate tectonics through ... of ETH Zurich and lead author of the study ...

Scientists now say the Indian plate isn’t just sliding—it's splitting deep within the crust, revealing a dramatic twist in tectonic history ... sliding could also lead to the development ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). Credit: Tao Yuan and Shijie Zhong.

Boru Tedecho (36), a village leader from Mugasa, remembers a tremor when he was a child but nothing on the scale of the ...